Principal Machine Learning Engineer- Search Quality

Snowflake

27 days ago

Menlo Park, CA, USA

Staff+

H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$264k - $380k/yr

Responsibilities

Lead the technical direction for Search Quality at Snowflake.
Transform search relevance measurement from heuristic-based to data-driven frameworks.
Identify key areas for investment in search technology.
Bridge traditional search methods with modern AI techniques.
Design evaluation frameworks and A/B testing methodologies for search quality.
Collaborate with Product Management and Data Science teams to define quality metrics.

15+ years of experience in designing and supporting large-scale distributed services.
Experience building and optimizing search systems in high-growth environments.
Expertise in NLP, LLMs, and their application to Information Retrieval.
Hands-on experience with search technologies like Lucene/Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
Extensive experience in machine learning applied to search quality.
Familiarity with hybrid search techniques for improved retrieval accuracy.
Strong foundation in building high-performance distributed systems.

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